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The Centre started its activity on 11^th May 1993. The impetus for establishment was driven by the actions of the students from the Department of Humanities and European Studies, who visited the USA in 1992, and met Czechoslovak compatriots and exiles there. In 1993, a research and documentation centre for the study of Czech-Slovak exile was established. The centre has a scientific enquiry function, which it performs through research projects, grants and support for citizens. The centre cooperates with other professional institutions, including national organisations, associations, as well as with scientific institutions, and individuals.

After its establishment, the centre had several goals that it tried to fulfil. The first was systematically processing the history of Czechs and Slovaks who emigrated from Czechoslovakia, with an emphasis put on emigrants after 1948. Since 1995, the centre has been involved in solving several grant projects: the Czechoslovak exile policy after 1948, the Czech expatriate community abroad together with the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore from the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, Czechoslovak Exile in 1948 - 1989, research on emigration from Czech lands in the Modern Age, and others.

The archive of the centre was temporarily moved between 2016 and 2018 due to the reconstruction of the building, and in 2018 it was moved back to the History Department at Olomouc University, and a large inventory of archived records was planned.

The Center for Research of the Liberation Movement in Ukraine is an independent, not-for-profit scholarly nongovernmental organization that studies various aspects of Ukraine's struggle for liberation in the 20th Century. The organization is also engaged actively in Ukraine's present day memory politics, in particular, the legacies of totalitarianism in the former USSR and Central and Eastern Europe.

The Center for Theoretical Study (CTS), a common department of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague, focuses on high quality research in the diverse fields of the humanities, social and exact sciences. CTS stimulates transdisciplinary approaches to science and encourages new methods of interaction and cooperation between disciplines. The major fields of current study in CTS are: Mathematics of Complex Systems; Biodiversity and its Dynamics; Man and Nature in Quaternary; Theorizing the City; Science, Expertise and Rationality in Society; Phenomenological Philosophy.

The Center for Women’s Studies is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Belgrade. It is autonomous and independent from political structures or groups. The fundamental task of the Center for Women’s Studies is to support and improve theoretical models that embrace differences and plurality. The most important aim of the Center is the theoretical examination of the possibility of resistance and of political action against social practices of discrimination and exclusion based on sex, skin color, class, gender, sexuality and ethnic, national, religious affiliation.

The foundation of Women’s Studies in Belgrade was initiated in 1991 by the Belgrade feminist group Woman and Society. The first experimental, one-semester course, began symbolically on March 8 (International Women’s Day) in 1992. From 1992 to 2012, a library was developed that contains more than 6,000 books and 400 magazines. During this period collaboration took place with 70 organizations throughout the country, the region and beyond. It is also important to note that over 1,500 students have attended its lectures.

The Center’s long-term strategy is to develop and establish academic programs that are based on the right to be different; that is, to think and act differently.

The Center’s activities cover different fields, but the they have been arranged together to create a sophisticated alternative educational program. The Center’s primary focus is on lectures, supporting research projects, further expanding the library and information center and publishing. The Center also organizes workshops, courses and conferences.

The Center for the Documentation of Totalitarian Regimes was established to explore the history of the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes of the 20th century. CDTR wants to contribute to the preservation of historical memory and the protection of human rights.

CDTR activities include historical and archival research, oral history, academic and civic education, focusing on topics related to the existence of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes in the 20th century. It also focuses on practical cooperation with other similarly-oriented bodies at both a national and international level, organizing internal and public seminars, lectures and conferences, organizing campaigns and petitions, publishing and distributing printed and electronic publications, and also conducting advisory and consulting activities in the above-mentioned areas.

The CDTR runs three web sites: minulost.cz (an online portal for the documentation of totalitarian regimes), iBadatelna (the State Security documentation portal) and vons.cz (a website collecting information on the history of the Committee for the Defense of Unjustly Prosecuted People).

CDTR has no employees. It is a non-profit organization that is run in the free time of its members.